Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Optimizing Large Language Models: Algorithmic Advancements and Model Design Strategies
Published 2026Large Language models have achieved remarkable performance across diverse tasks, but face two critical deployment challenges: (1) the key-value (KV) cache memory bottleneck that limits model deployment in resource-constrained ...Open AccessThesis -
Fast Algorithms for Fréchet-Based Similarity
Published 2026Polygonal curves arise naturally when recording movement data from GPS traces, animal tracking, or eye-gaze measurements. A fundamental task is to compare such curves using a formal notion of similarity. The Fréchet distance ...Open AccessThesis -
Multimodal Emotion Elicitation and Recognition in Virtual Reality
Published 2026Virtual Reality (VR) has been effectively used for eliciting emotions, yet most research focuses on the intensity of affective responses rather than on how interaction influences those experiences. To address this gap, ...Open AccessThesis -
Causes, Mechanisms, and Mitigation of Socially-Induced Nocebo Effects
Published 2026The nocebo effect refers to adverse symptoms that arise in response to treatment but cannot be explained by its active properties. Despite their major clinical, social, and economic burden, nocebo effects remain understudied. ...Open AccessThesis -
Learning Theory for Transformers: An Operator-Learning Viewpoint
Published 2026Large language models (LLMs) have reshaped the foundations of artificial intelligence research and the modes of interaction between human cognition and machine intelligence. Their influence extends further still, transforming ...Open AccessThesis